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From: "Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: zeurkous <zeurkous@volny.cz>, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: revised patch: zshmisc(1) clarify non-successful exit statuses
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 16:15:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <416cb2e5-12ae-403a-a1f8-34b98a4c3c73@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <865865f0-5578-45cb-affb-a620c00f9f68@www.fastmail.com>

Daniel Shahaf wrote on Fri, 23 Apr 2021 16:07 +00:00:
> zeurkous@volny.cz wrote on Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:18 +00:00:
> > # The copied use of startsitem() was suggested on the same mailing list.
> > # Me hopes me did it right.
> 
> Not quite; sitem()() takes two arguments.  See, for instance,
> http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/User-Contributions.html#index-zmv
> and Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo:4573.
> 
> > # Note that the "operating system-dependent" part is made more
> > # complicated by zsh' habit of de-capitalizing the initial character of
> > # the string returned by strerror(3).
> 
> I wouldn't mind losing that habit, actually.  It's not zsh's business to
> copyedit a library message, especially when that breaks some use-cases
> (case-sensitive grepping/skimming) and is downright wrong in some cases
> (e.g., in German <https://bugs.debian.org/419233>, or if the error
> message happens to start with word that changes meaning when
> decapitalized, such as "Perl" or "English").

Also, if strerror(3) returns an empty string, the fputs() call will
dereference a past-the-end pointer.

> #419233 has a patch which should still work.
> 
> > # Hope this is more useful (it is to me),
> > #
> > #         --zeurkous, Fri Apr 23 12:09:47 UTC 2021.
> > #
> > --- Doc/Zsh/..v/5.8/exec.yo	Mon Dec  4 14:09:35 2017
> > +++ Doc/Zsh/exec.yo	Fri Apr 23 12:02:30 2021
> > @@ -14,10 +14,22 @@
> 
> Read the new text and don't have any comments.  It's an improvement,
> even if a mention of AUTO_CD hasn't been added.  Anyone else wants
> to review?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-23 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-11 12:15 zeurkous
2021-04-13 15:52 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-13 18:03   ` zeurkous
2021-04-14 11:03     ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-14 11:40       ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 12:18         ` revised " zeurkous
2021-04-23 16:07           ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-23 16:15             ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2021-04-23 20:25             ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 20:14           ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-04-23 20:29             ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 20:39               ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-04-23 20:57                 ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 20:51           ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-23 21:03             ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 21:12               ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-23 21:18                 ` zeurkous
2021-04-23 22:31                   ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-26 16:25             ` zeurkous
2021-04-29 14:20               ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-05-09 19:04                 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-05-31  1:09                   ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-05-31  4:09                     ` Bart Schaefer
2021-05-31  4:37                       ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-06-30 17:51                     ` zeurkous
2021-06-30 22:12                       ` Lawrence Velázquez

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